Gregory v. McVeigh’s Empirical Analysis
90 U.S. 294 · 1874
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1929
2 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Adsit
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“been forever closed against the suit, not through neglect, but in the regular order of proceeding under the law governing the practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fisher v. Perkins“in which a decision in the suit could be had.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. Perkins
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.